Wednesday, February 27, 2019

A Graphical View of API Performance Based on Call Location

The performance of APIs is dependent on both the processing time from when the API receives a request and delivers a response and the time it takes for the request and response data packets to traverse the Internet distance between the calling system and the system that hosts the API. The timings for calls to APIs are broken down into components by cURL, "a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs." In an earlier post, I outlined what curl timings mean.

Your customers want to see a response to their action as soon as possible. In this post, I utilize the API Science API, curl, and a few simple scripts to graphically illustrate the effect of global calling location on overall API performance.



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